[vtkusers] vtkTkRenderWidget fails when trying to locate vtkLoadPythonTkWidget.dll

[jeremiah newbie]

Thank you Prabhu,

Your installation guide worked like a charm, with a few exceptions.
As it stands Les Schaffer's dll package unzips its vtk dlls in a 
directory called "BASE_DIR/vtk4".  All I had to do was move those 
dlls to the "BASE_DIR/vtk/bin" directory and include that in the 
PYTHONPATH (I also put it in the system path as well, but it only 
picked it up when in PYTHONPATH).  

Thank you again, and thanks to David who's been helped and is 
continuing to help with my vtk compliation problems.  But that's 
another thread ... ;)

Cheers,

Jeremy


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---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Prabhu Ramachandran <prabhu at aero.iitm.ernet.in>
Reply-To: Prabhu Ramachandran <prabhu at cyberwaveindia.com>
Date:  Mon, 25 Feb 2002 11:11:37 +0530

>Hi,
>
>>>>>> "JN" == jeremiah newbie <jeremiahnewbie at delusional.nu> 
writes:
>
>    JN> Hi all, I'm new to the list and I'm having problems 
trying to
>    JN> install vtk on my windows 2000 machine.  So far I've
>    JN> sucessfully installed python 2.1 on my machine though 
their
>    JN> install program.  When trying to install vtk I followed 
this
>    JN> procedure:
>
>A long while ago when I made the MayaVi binaries for win32 I 
wrote up
>a small document on how to use Les's binaries.  I've attached it 
at
>the bottom and hope it is of some use.  Some items like the 
vtkCore32
>are old just use the same procedure with the more recent binary
>releases.
>
>prabhu
>
>
>                Installing VTK and Python on Windows
>                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>Through out the document I assume that 
>  BASE_DIR=D:\Program Files\
>
>
>Installing Python:
>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>  Visit http://www.python.org.  Grab the latest stable release
>  (currently 2.1.1) and install this.  Its pretty simple 
installing
>  Python under Windows.  I assume that you install Python in
>  BASE_DIR\Python21
>
>  Note: Please make sure you install Tkinter (Tcl/Tk) that is 
bundled
>  with the Python installer.
>
>
>Installing VTK from binaries:
>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>  This procedure is currently pretty messy.  Hopefully this will 
be
>  cleaned up and improved later.
>
>  Download the vtk32Core.exe and vtk32Python.exe file from here:
>
>        http://public.kitware.com/VTK/get-software.php
>
>  Install vtk32Core.exe in BASE_DIR\vtk.  Put the resulting DLL's 
in
>  BASE_DIR\vtk\DLLs\
>
>  Install vtk32Python.exe in BASE_DIR\Python21.  Take all the 
files
>  that it creates and put them in the BASE_DIR\Python21\VTK dir.
>
>  Get Les Schaffer's VTK DLL's built for Windows and Python 2.1 
from
>  here:
>
>        http://folks.astrian.net/godzilla
>
>  Unzip them in BASE_DIR.
>
>  Now create a vtk.pth file in BASE_DIR\Python21\ that simply 
contains
>  the following on a line:
>
>      VTK
>
>  Note: make *absolutely* sure that the actual file name of the 
file
>  is truly vtk.pth.  Notepad for instance will automatically make 
it a
>  vtk.pth.txt file and make life miserable.
>  
>  You should also make sure that BASE_DIR\vtk\DLLs is in your 
PATH.
>
>  That should pretty much set up VTK completely.
>
>
>Testing:
>^^^^^^^^
>
>  To test your install start a Python interpreter shell either use
>  idle or type 'python' at a shell, and try the following:
>
>  >>> import vtkpython
>  >>> import vtkRenderWidget
>
>  If this works then in all probabilty your VTK and installation 
is
>  correct.
>
>
>
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